permaculture

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>]

Robert Waldrop wrote:
> It seems to me that the correct way of formulating 
> this would be to say "permaculture is a total 
> concept that can use natural agriculture, 
> terramechanics, terraforming, local food 
> production, wildscaping etc.  "  In other words, 
> permaculture is not just another parallel concept 
> to wildscaping, local food production, natural 
> agriculture.  Permacultue IS the total concept 
> design system, which may use any number of 
> sub-systems like wildscaping, natural agriculture, 
> terraforming, etc. to achieve its goals.  This 
> seems to imply a narrow vision of permaculture as 
> forest gardening with a design manual, or orchard 
> keeping, when in fact permaculture is a total 
> design concept under whose wings the rest of these 
> strategies can rest comfortably and productively.

That says it perfectly, Robert. If its OK with you I am going to stick this 
in the homepage for this list -
let me know if you want me to add a credit to you reading anything different than "a definition of permaculture provided 
by one of this list's subscribers, Robert Waldrop, OKC". If I can fit it on I'll add it to the

Permaculture could also be described as "the source from which many Earth 
stewardship disciplines flow".